Conference Session

Technical Papers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dana Denick, Drexel University; Jay Bhatt, Drexel University; Bradley Layton, Drexel University (Eng.)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

required to complete Drexel University’sIntroduction to Engineering Design (ENGR 101-103) program. This is a three course, year-longengineering design sequence which aims “to provide students with an understanding of thesimilarities, differences, and career options available in the various engineering disciplines, theimportance of multidisciplinary teams to innovation, an appreciation for engineeringmeasurements, errors, units, significant figures and reproducibility, and the ability tocommunicate relevant technical information concisely and incorporate experimental dataclearly.” In the course sequence, all incoming engineering students representing the disciplinesof Architectural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Sciences and Health Systems

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James O'Brien, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

throughout theHabitat for United States. From 2004 thru 2007, Villanova sent the most students out of 1989Humanity approximately 250 campus chapters. In the Two-day program, Villanova works with local Habitat affiliates Approximately 800 VU students sign up each year, Learning Partners is an online tutoring and mentoring program between VillanovaLearners undergraduates and students at the School of the Future (SOTF). Participants workConnect! together through an online course that is focused on career/college goals with SOTF 2006Learning learners. The program has the

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

core of the university selection process. In the twentyyears following this debate it could be asserted with considerable confidence that an‘A’ level in engineering science was the equivalent of 1st and sometimes 2nd yearcourses in four-year university programmes in other countries. This was achieved atthe expense of breadth of study. From the age of sixteen a student, in that period,pursued three perhaps four subjects for two years either in the sciences or the arts(humanities).For the most part, however, attention was focused on the schools and to argue thatteachers should do much more to encourage students pursue careers in science andtechnology. Some schools experimented with engineering subjects. One outcome oftheir efforts was the

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in ET: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Stephen Kuyath, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Technology

North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. STEPHEN KUYATH is an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has taught engineering technology courses at the college level for over 26 years. He has a strong interest in and dedication to improving both traditional and distance engineering education and to encouraging those students typically underrepresented in STEM fields to consider engineering technology as a career. Page 15.1225.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Effect of Panopto on Academic Performance and Satisfaction

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education

. [Online]. Available:http://old.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/good200412230957.asp [Accessed April 1, 2010].[23] R. Nelson. “Learning and working in the collaborative age: a new model for the workplace.”Edutopia.org, April 11, 2008. [Online video] Available: http://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video [Accessed January 8, 2010][24] P. Elbow, Writing without teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. Page 15.1189.16

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Coso, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

education. These undergraduate students also had an opportunity to formally present theirwork at a public forum, at the Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event in Charleston,West Virginia, which afforded them the experience of presenting technically advanced materialto West Virginia state legislators as they will often be required to do in their careers. Thegraduate students also presented their published work at several national and state conferencesincluding the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation,and Control Conference, the AIAA Young Professional and Student Educational Conference,and the West Virginia STAR Symposium. The presentation skills gained through theseopportunities undoubtedly

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J Thompson, Kansas State University; Ata M. Nazar, Kabul University

Tagged Divisions

International

lives. Manymembers of the faculty and graduates of the program made their way to the US or Europe andtook up successful Engineering careers. Some are supporting the present rebuilding effort in avariety of ways.During the civil war the engineering building was used by the military and laboratory equipmentwas scrapped and sold for funds to support the war effort. Even the plumbing and electricalwiring was stripped out of the building. During the Taliban administration the engineeringprogram was restarted, but with little resources. Following the fall of the Taliban a number ofinternational agencies have provided some assistance for rebuilding the engineering programincluding some renovation of the building and the contribution of some equipment

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.

to measure undergraduate students’ self-efficacy related to succeedingin the engineering curriculum, as well as feelings of inclusion in the academic environment,ability to cope with setbacks or challenges related to the college environment, and expectationsabout engineering career success and math outcomes. The original use of the instrument wasfocused on self-efficacy among undergraduate women engineering students, and specifically onthe relationship of self-efficacy and the other related constructs to students’ persistence inengineering (Marra et al., 2004). Following its development in 2003, the LAESE was used asthe primary instrument for a longitudinal multi-institution study of self-efficacy among male andfemale engineering students at

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Parikh, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Kenneth Goodson, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

those occurring with very small length and time scales. Goodson is a co-founder and former CTO of Cooligy, Inc., which builds microfluidic cooling systems for computers and was acquired by Emerson, Inc., in 2005. Goodson received the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award, and now serves as an Associate Editor for this Journal. Goodson serves as Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. He has received the ONR Young Investigator Award and the NSF CAREER Award. Ken received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT.Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard is the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shaobo Huang, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

, allowing education researchers andpractitioners to “see” how the predicted results are generated, and thus the predicted results canbe interpreted in a reasonable and meaningful way 11. For example, Green 12 developed a set oflinear regression models for three mechanical engineering courses to predict a student’s finalexam score from the student’s scores in mid-term quizzes. A modest correlation was foundbetween a student’s final exam score and mid-term exam scores. Yousuf 13 developed amultivariate linear regression model to predict student academic performance in ComputerScience and Engineering Technology programs. The predictor/independent variables ofYousuf’s model 13 included a student’s career self-efficacy belief, math-SAT scores, high

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, and mustfall on the characteristic curve for the fan. Whenever a fan is attached to a system a certainamount of back pressure on the fan will be created. This backpressure depends on the amount offlow going through the system. In order to determine the actual operating point the engineermust know the characteristic curves for both the fan (fan curve) and the system (impedancecurve). The operating point is the point at which the two curves intersect (Figure 1). Since it islikely that an engineer will have to select a fan at some point in his/her career it is important tounderstand this concept.Learning about how to determine the operating point for a fan in a system is enough to make thisa worthwhile activity. However, there is a broader

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Patricia Pena, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Tagged Divisions

International

project as 3 out of 5. The benefit to the outcomeof the project of the presentation on Cultural Awareness was rated only slightly higher at 3.14out of 5. However, the students felt that the presentation on Cultural Awareness would be usefulin their future career as indicated by their average rating of 4.57 out 5.Technical Subject MatterThe authors in general feel that the students were even more successful in their learning of thetechnical subject matter than they were in learning about inter-cultural collaboration. Thestudents learned many valuable lessons about practical issues with control system design that arenot typically encountered in textbook problems. One example was that the students gained anunderstanding of the inherent nonlinearity

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

new faculty member, into aclassroom and told to teach a class. The person may or may not have any experience as ateacher, and if they do have experience it may be limited to having Teaching Assistant duties.They may or may not be given a course that is a fundamental aspect of their research, but hasmany details that they have not given much thought to in many years. They may be given some Page 15.609.3assistance by another faculty member when starting to teach a new course, but generally aregiven no formal training unless they had sought such training on their own before beginning theirfaculty career. At the same time, this person is also being

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Sevier, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

impact of a SL method on student learning and retention. This study investigated students’ motivational attitudes and self-assessment of engineering abilities. It is hypothesized that positive motivational attitudes and self-assessment of abilities would result in deeper understandings of engineering and continuous motivation to pursue engineering as a career. More research should be conducted to test the hypothesis. ≠ Design engineering curricula with instructional strategies such as SL that contribute to meeting ABET program outcomes. As shown in the literature review, engineering educators have successfully designed and implemented SL in their curricula to achieve ABET program outcomes. This study

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

Tagged Divisions

International

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Sam Conn, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Systems at Regis University in Denver, Colorado from 1999 to 2008. In this position he led the university's move to online education in graduate and undergraduate programs. Sam also served as co-director of the online joint-degree program with the National University of Ireland in Galway, Director of the Center for Database Research, and Co-Director for the National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence. Sam has worked in higher education since 1999 after completing a 23 year career in the field of information systems and technology. Sam maintains a publishing track in Information Systems and eLearning research

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Otto, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-graduate plans and shaping the college experience. But confidence relates to the experiences oneseeks out (which may in turn build confidence), and these experiences in turn are likely to affectfuture plans and opportunities. Employers are increasingly calling for well-developedprofessional skills in engineering hires and ABET Inc. has established a set of six professionalskill outcomes that engineering baccalaureate graduates should possessii,iii. Motivation, whatdrives one to pursue something, also influences how one chooses to spend time both in schooland in career planning.In this study, we test the explanatory power of framing undergraduate engineering populationsaccording to measures of their intrinsic psychological motivation and

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Michael Evans, Virginia Tech; Brett Jones, Virginia Tech; Carol Brandt, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development of UScitizens in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Consequently, theresearchers addressed this effort by exposing young people to STEM careers while focusing ondesign issues and concepts related to energy conservation and the environment.In this paper, we describe the results of the initial implementation of Studio STEM in aninformal setting for underserved youth: an after-school Boys and Girls Club in a ruralAppalachian community. The curricular package used for this pilot study, called Save thePenguins, has been used in the past in formal, in-school settings with advantaged youth.3,4 Inthis iteration the researchers selected a different population and added an informationcommunication technology (ICT) component

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

publication/career, political correctness, continuedfunding, or one’s pet theory.5. The general public rather than the scientific community votes on what is worthstudying and funding.6. The public loses trust in scientific research.7. The scientific method is abandoned because the results are “obvious.”8. No one cares how things really work.9. We move to an age of magic and mysticism.Lewis wrote:“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law inNature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief hasdied: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it.Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin McCarthy, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

-life jobs accuratelyand this perceived relevance of the material to future careers was also a motivator.The tasks followed a logical sequence both in engineering and chronological terms and, infact, may be viewed as one large, single, manufacturing system activity. This characteristicmeets one of the requirements of situated learning theory, i.e. that tasks provide a complex,coherent and sustained learning environment. Barab 27 points out that authenticity is providedby the dynamic interactions amongst all the components [of the virtual enterprise] and that,“authenticity is manifest in the flow itself….and not in any one feature in isolation.”To successfully deal with the indeterminate problems the students were required to frame theproblem

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

accomplish certain parts on my own.While another student said of Laboratory 7: This Lab applied skills that I can see myself using in my career. And allowed me to relate process control to statistical analysis of the process.There were many responses that connected a real world context to conceptual understanding asthose cited above. However, the following response indicates a student who has more difficultywith this approach: It (Laboratory 9) was the first lab where we already had an opportunity to grasp the concepts we needed to use in the lab before we started. so that instead of struggling to develop an understanding of the concepts while we were working through the lab we were able to preemptively apply our knowledge

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1952: A NOVEL APPROACH TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTRobert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Robert Reeves graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2009 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He will finish his MS in Chemical Engineering also from UMBC in May 2010 and will begin his career with OSIsoft, LLC. He has been working on the INSPIRES program for the last year.Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Julia Ross is Professor and Chair of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her technical research interests are in the area of cellular

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Martin Knecht, South Texas College; Taylor Martin, Univ of Texas at Austin; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Joan Walker, Long Island University; Araceli Ortiz, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

hastwo foci, student retention and the student’s development of adaptive expertise. Student RetentionResearch points to a need to see the relevance of studies to the real world1 as one of four keyreasons for minority-STEM students’ decision to drop-out or transfer out of STEMundergraduate fields of study. The need to relate their studies to the real world results becauseminority students lack an equitable number of career influencers and role models within theirfamilies and familiar networks. Thus, when minority students select STEM fields of study, they Page 15.397.2experience an immediate need to confirm the relevance and compatibility of

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

at four important areas: the student’sexposure to engineering design throughout their undergraduate career, the student’s perception ofengineering design in verbal and visual form, the qualities of a good engineering designer, andthe important topics to be covered in an engineering design course.The purpose of the sources identified prior was to generate the overall list of qualities and topicsshown in the tables within the instrument. The first list was created using the interview results.This list was then expanded upon using curricular requirements. The combination of theinterview results and curricular requirements were identified as the most important of the listsince they would reveal that the students were meeting the course

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

years. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. 5. Atkinson, M. P. (2001). The scholarship of teaching and learning: Reconceptualizing scholarship and transforming the academy. Social Forces, 79 (4), 1217-1230. 6. Austin, A. E. (2002). Preparing the next generation of faculty: Graduate school as socialization to the academic career. The Journal of Higher Education, 73 (1), 94-122. 7. Barbe, Walter B. , Milone, Michael N., Jr. (1980). Modality. Instructor, 89, 44-47. 8. Barr, R. B., & Tagg, J. (1995, November/December). From teaching to learning: A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change: The Magazine of Higher Education, 13-24. 9. Barrows, Howard S. (2000). Problem-Based Learning

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Small, Clarkson University; Gail Gotham, St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES; Peter Turner, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

skill and content knowledge that exists forinstance when you have an elementary teacher, a middle school teacher and a high school teacherbringing their specific expertise and background to a workshop. It was an introduction in manycases to differential instruction.Faculty members have also benefited from their exposure to K-12 outreach activities byintegrating their experiences and lesons learned into their research grants, especially NSF. Forexample, an asst. professor from Mechanical Engineering who has been involved in our roboticsoutreach activities was recently received an NSF CAREER award that integrates K-12 outreach,and another professor has a new NSF CCLI grant that includes a high school component as afollow on to the Finding NANO

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Purdue Universtiy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

perspective on classroom experiencesand being on campus for four years students have had more time to develop relationships withfaculty.DiscussionBy examining the student perspective, this research provides further insight into the role facultyplay in student engagement in learning during undergraduate careers. Framed in self-determination theory (SDT), results show students initially describe faculty behaviors aspositively contributing to student‟s autonomy, competence, and relatedness beliefs although theybecome neutral or negative at various points in time. A primary implication for practice is theneed for faculty, across all four years, to consider the potential impact of their behaviors asnegatively contributing to student motivation.The key

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Simon, Columbia University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering